Yeah thanks for the shout - good thoughts - I was trying to get them to run natively just for kicks. In both cases, the files that go on the hard drive are the easy part, then it comes to when the game looks to the D:\ drive for the game CD. I think it depends how aggressively it looks for the …

I have an IBM Thinkpad 380z that's finally up and running (PII, Windows 98), and there's a few games I own via GOG that I was trying to get running: The Dig, Gabriel Knight 1. Unlike some of the GOG games that have an easy bin/cue or game.dat type setup that makes CD-creation easy, these two don't …

Whoops! Sorry just answered my own question. Got it to work using "devolutionX" which seems to be kind of like an Exult for Ultima 7, but for Diablo. I downloaded version 0.4.0 here: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX/releases And then I just copied the ~500MB .mpq file over to the folder …

Has anyone run Diablo 1 from GOG on Mac? Usually I just use DOSBox, but this one's a windows program. I've successfully run the GOG installer via Wine, so I have the whole Diablo folder and associated files that GOG would install onto a Windows machine hard drive. It includes the ~500MB .mpq file …

Omnibook 800CT - finally got some games up and running after having to take apart the floppy drive and grease it up. Was close to going with a Microsoft Mouse, but couldn't resist the crisp edges on this Logitech that was still shrink-wrapped. https://i.imgur.com/3ibETD8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ …

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. I took the floppy drive apart, cleaned it out, rubbed it down with isopropyl alcohol, and then used the white lithium grease and it worked! At least long enough to get the stupid 25kB driver copied over to the hard drive! Now I have a fully functional CD-ROM attached and I can …

Thanks @BushLin - makes sense. I'd have to buy an IDE adapter but this did cross my radar. I used to have one of those Orinoco Gold PCMCIA network cards but kicking myself because seems like I must have lost it somewhere. I do have a PCMCIA to SD Card coming in the mail soon but to your point may be …

It's a really smart idea and was definitely on my radar. Only issue is that all my other computers are laptops without serial ports...BUT...I could get a USB to serial converter for pretty cheap probably...definitely a good thought.

Thanks man - yeah that's next on my list. There's no exposed screws on the external floppy so I have to use a spudger etc to pop it apart by these tiny clips - might be a bit of a challenge. I did find this example config sys setup too that uses drivers already on the Omnibook hard drive, but not …

Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a pickle here and looking for advice in getting my laptop up and running for some retro gaming. I have an HP Omnibook 800CT with an external 3.5" floppy drive. I also have a Panasonic external PCMCIA CDRW drive (KXL-RW10A). I'm trying to achieve any kind of system that lets …

Thanks guys - makes total sense now! Freddy Pharkas does require a Xeon though right? I think I read that somewhere... : )

Sorry about that @collector!! I will be more careful next time to post in the right forum.

Cool! Yeah thats what I was thinking...bizarre that they listed those system req's like that but maybe it was a re-release version I was looking at or something... Thanks for confirming!!

I was looking for a big box version of Full Throttle (Lucasarts) on eBay and I saw system requirements that said Pentium 133MHz and 32-64MB RAM - is that for real?? Has anybody gotten it running on a lower spec PC? Was thinking of P75/16MB...

Yeah TD-12 is kind of intense...has 262 non-drum instruments and it plays full-on General Midi sounding music as background for practice, so I thought maybe it might understand if it got a General Midi signal...may have to wait until the build to just plug it in and see what happens...

I'm building a PC to play games from around 1988-1995 and was planning to track down an MT-32 and an SC-55, but a friend has a Roland V-drums kit with a TD-12 module, and I was wondering if it would achieve the same thing (at least same as the SC). Has anybody ever tried this?

Thanks all for these replies! Thanks @TheMLGladiator for the drivers link. Thanks rasz_pl for thoughts - I plan to get a Diamond branded S3 Trio64V+. @clueless1: really appreciate the callout on 968 vs Trio64V+, it's exactly the decision I was puzzling over. :cool: Will let you guys know how the …

Hi all, New to the forum. My first post here :happy: I'm planning a build of what would be the ultimate PC in 1995 (limiting myself to 1995 or earlier hardware, but going for the best). I plan to play games from as early as mid-80's (Sierra, Lucasarts) all the way through to 1995 (Full Throttle, …